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FINE
ARTS
What to Expect
AN INVestigation into historical art materials and techniques
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a thematic exploration of the eternal return of history, the antithesis of the self, and Pratītyasamutpāda (Interdependent origination).
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My art is my complete disappearance.
It is an attempt to transcend personal experience to the great flow of pratītyasamutpāda/ duyên khởi/ dependent origination. Pratītyasamutpāda is a Buddhist doctrine posits that all dharmas (phenomena) arise and exist in a state of interdependence. Thus, all things are ever-chagining and interconnected in an immutable reality.
In the mesh of intricate patterns weaved in my works, there is nothing more but a void: no signifier of a specific political, social, or historical being. All is a fabricated illusionism of an absolute universality—a lucid somnambulism, a collapse of reverie, imagination, and mundane life—manifested through successions of phantasmagorical imagery.
The depiction of the human figures is an exile of the self here: morphed, transformed, and interconnected into a ceaseless flow. Chaos of violence, chaos of tenderness. A thousand waves overflow through the flesh and bones of the dead and the living, visible and the invisible. Waves of the ocean, air, flame, stardust, and all in this sublime cosmos.
My art is an anti-memoir, but it’s a fight against the forgettingness: an eternity I make to make up for everything that I’m devoid of. The pilgrimage into the mist of obscurity is a return to the roots of all.
Fine Arts ✧
Painting
A cabinet of curiosities comprised a painting made from 6 historic blue pigments, with the imagery inspired by conservation scientifc imaging techniques.
A painting exploring cyclical history and eternal return through Flemish-inspired glazing techniques.
An attempt to reconstruct traditional Vietnamese iconography techniques with distemper painting and gold gilding on dó paper.
Papermaking & Artist’s Book
An artist’s book combining papermaking and lithography, examining memory, repetition, and transformation through the flag-book structure and handmade paper.
A carousel artist’s book that reinterprets Ptolemaic world maps, exploring how ancient systems of knowledge shaped humanity’s understanding of the world and the cosmos.
A clamshell box merging bookmaking and tempera painting, presenting personal memory as fragmented, episodic objects held in unstable order.
A work on handmade paper inspired by the Egyptian Lake of Fire, reflecting on fragmentation, punishment, and the fragile boundary between destruction and regeneration.
A sculptural installation using handmade paper and organic materials, meditating on departure, transformation, and the tension between fragility and endurance.
A folio artist’s book structured around twelve Victorian envelopes, engaging time, secrecy, and cyclical reading through participatory assembly.
A pulp painting on handmade paper that uses material contrast to express grief, loss, and the quiet persistence of hope.
A hand-bound poetry book using Japanese stab binding, where text, image, and paper layers unfold through reading. The work explores remorse, memory, and emotional asymmetry through sequential concealment and reveal